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Transcript of Kristi Myth
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The Mythological
and ArchetypalApproachBy: Kristi, Grant, Parth, Ben, and
Shrey
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Mythology
Definition: a set of
stories, traditions, or
beliefs associated
with a particular groupor the history of an
event.
Example of Greek
Mythology
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Mythology (cont.)
Mythology tends to be speculative and
philosophical
such as involving:
religion
anthropology
cultural history
Note: Anthropology is the study of human beings
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Mark Schorer
An American writer,novelist and critic
His definition of myth:
Myth is a fundamental, the
dramatic representationof our deepest instinctuallife, of a primaryawareness of man in theuniverse, capable ofmany configurations,
upon which all particularopinions and attitudedepends. (William Blake:The Politics of Vision 29)
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Alan W. Watts
A philosopher, writer,speaker, and expert incomparative religion
His definition of Myth:
Myth is to be defined as acomplex of storiessome no doubt fact, andsome fantasywhich forvarious reasons, human
beings regard asdemonstrations of theinner meaning of theuniverse and of humanlife. (7)
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Archetypes
Archetype: An original model or type after
which other similar things are patterned
:Modifs and images that tend to
elicit comparable psychological responses
and serve similar cultural functions.
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Examples of Archetypes
Water:-mystery of creation
-birth
-death-resurrection
-purification
-redemption
-fertility
-growth
-unconsciousness
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Sea: Symbolizes Mother of all life
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River: Symbolizes death and
rebirth; baptism
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Sun (fire sky)
Sun:
-creative energy
-law in nature
-consciousness
-thinking
-enlightenment
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Setting sun: Symbolizes death
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Colors as
archetypes
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RED Blood
Sacrifice Violent passion
disorder
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GREEN Growth
Sensation
Hope
Fertility
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BLUE Positive
Truth
Religions
feeling
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BLACK
Chaos
Mystery
Unknown
Death
evil
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WHITE
Signifying
Light
Purity
innocence
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A circle is an archetype
Wholeness
Unity
Examples:
-mandala
-yang-yin
- ouroboros
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A Serpent
Symbol of
energy and
pure force
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Numbers asArchetypes
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Light
Spiritual awareness
of unity
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Life circle
4 seasons
Earth
Nature
elements
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Completion of a cycle
Perfect order
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Archetypical Woman
Good mother:
nourishment, growth,
warmth
Terrible mother:witch, fear, danger
Soul mate: beauty
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Archetypal wise old man
Knowledge
Insight
cleverness
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GardenUnspoiled beauty
paradise
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Desert
Death
hopelessness
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Archetypal Motifs and Patterns
Motif: a recurring subject, theme, idea,
etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or
musical work.
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Creation
most fundamental of
motifs
virtually every
mythology is built onsome account of how
the nature was
brought into existence
by some supernaturalbeing or beings
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Immortality
Form 1: escape from
time
Form 2: mystical
submersion into
cyclical time (endless
death)
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Hero Archetypes
The quest: hero undertakes some long
journey where they perform impossible
tasks
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Hero archetypes (cont.)
Initiation: hero under goes ordeals in
passing from ignorance and maturity
3 phases-
1. separation
2. transformation
3. return
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Hero archetypes (cont.)
Sacrificial scapegoat: hero
must die for peoples sins andrestore land to fruitfulness
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Archetypes genres
1. Mythos of spring- comedy
2. Mythos of summer- romance
3. Mythos of fall- tragedy4. Mythos of winter- irony
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To His Coy Mistress Uses archetypes of time and immortality
Stanza 1-
line1 had we but world enough, and time.
Line 8 Love you ten years before the flood.
Line 13 An hundred years should go to praise.
Line 15 two hundred to adore each breast,
Line 16 But thirty thousand to the rest.
Each of these lines refers to their love for each other for allof eternity.
It applies to the archetype motif of immortality in the form ofescaping from time.
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To His Coy Mistress (cont.)
Stanza 2-
Line 22 Times winged chariot hurrying near:
This references to the myth of how a winged chariot comes
to bring one to heaven.
Line 24 Deserts of vast eternity.
Once again this refers to the archetype of escaping from
time
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To His Coy Mistress (cont.)
Stanza 3-
Line 40 Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Line 46 Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Both of these lines bring up an undefined him. This goesalong with the Greek mythology of one who is above allhumans.
Line 44 Thorough the iron gates of life:The iron gates of life are symbolizing the gates to heaven
in mythology
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A Farewell to Arms
Rain is a major archetype in A Farewell to
Arms.
It is a pattern that whenever it rains there
is death
Pg 4 the narrator tells how it is raining,
then he goes on to say how 7000 people
died of cholera in the army.
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A Farewell to Arms (cont.)
Also, when one of the soldiers is killed by
the mortar shell, the narrator happens to
mention that it is raining.
Furthermore, in the end when Catherine
dies, Frederic leaves the hospital in the
rain
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A Farewell to Arms (cont.)
Throughout the book, it is snowing which
shows that it takes place during the winter
The Archetype genre of winter is irony
Frederic finally finding a woman he cares
about, and for her to just die at the end is
ironic.
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A Farewell to Arms (cont.)
In the book, Frederic jumps in a river to escape
from being shot.
The archetype of a river is death, rebirth, or
baptism. In several critics, critics have questioned his
jumping in the river as a reference to baptism.
However, it could be viewed as rebirth too, since
Frederic is leaving all his friends and tries to
start a new life with him and Catherine.